Niobium Literature in Japan

CBMM newly started a technical database service of steel technology in its homepage from June 2004. Anyone wishing to access this database should drop in at the company's website http://www.cbmm.com.br, and click the button <Niobium in Steel>, then <Publication in Japan>. The service is gratis.
The literature database covers Japanese-language technical reports published in Japan from 1962 to 2002. Each report concerns the development of steel materials containing niobium, or contains research published in Japan dealing with the methods of using niobium in steel production. With the permission of the original publishers below, 539 reports from the following technical journals have been compiled into the English abstract database.

Tetsu-to-Hagane: The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan

Journal of The Institute of Metals: The Japan Institute of Metals

Journal of The Japan Society for Technology of Plasticity (Sosei-to-Kakou): The Japan Society for Technology of Plasticity

Journal of The Japan Society for Heat Treatment (Netsu Shori): The Japan Society for Heat Treatment

Owing to the original publisher's favor and understanding of this project, the service is realized in the present form. The most important conclusions of the reports have been summarized without impairing their originality. The database was developed on the basis of careful study by specialists commissioned by CBMM. The successful creation of this database owes a great debt to the contributions of the following seven committee members.

Hiroshi Takechi, Dr. Eng.: former President of Fukuoka Junior College of Technology

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The editorial committee of Materials Transactions is planning to publish a special issue on “Advanced Materials for Hydrogen Energy Applications” as April 2011. The committee would like to invite many contributions of original articles from many countries for this special issue.
Objective and topics of coverage are as follows:
Societal demands for materials related to hydrogen energy are expected to become increasingly heavy from the viewpoint of high-level energy security as well as because we need to address the urgent issue for realizing Low-Carbon-Emission Society. It is, therefore, important and indispensable to systematically study and promote the information exchange about the advanced materials for hydrogen production, hydrogen separation/purification, and hydrogen storage/transportation. This special issue is to summarize the recent studies on “ Advanced Materials for Hydrogen Energy Applications” .
Topics:
Hydrogen Production, Hydrogen Separation/Purification, Hydrogen Storage/Transportation, Hydrides

“New Functions and Properties of Engineering Materials Created by Designing and Processing II”

The editorial committee of Materials Transactions is planning to publish a special issue on “New Functions and Properties of Engineering Materials Created by Designing and Processing II” as July 2013. The committee would like to invite many contributions of original articles from around the globe for this special issue.
Objective and topics of coverage are as follows:
Materials processing technology has significantly contributed to the success of the manufacturing industry, and emerging technologies on every front necessitate the invention of new materials and methods to fabricate these materials. This special issue covers novel functions and properties of advanced engineering materials of metals, ceramics, and polymers produced by microstructural control and alignment. In addition, it presents the current status of various techniques used for materials designing and processing, such as 3-D imaging, sensing/measurement/analysis, and multi-scale simulation. We expect to receive original papers related to the topics that will be presented at ISAEM-2012 (The Fifth International Symposium on Designing, Processing and Properties of Advanced Engineering Materials), which will be held in Toyohashi in November 2012; however, the submitted papers would not be restricted to those presented at ISAEM-2012.
Topics:
materials processing, 3-D imaging, sensing, advanced measurement and analysis, materials simulation, multi-scale modeling, microstructural control, biomedical materials, ceramics, polymer materials

The editorial committee of Materials Transactions is planning to publish a special issue on “Advanced Materials for Hydrogen Energy Applications II” as August 2014.
The committee would like to invite many contributions of original articles from around the globe for this special issue.
Objective and topics of coverage are as follows:
The Great East Japan Earthquake has generated awareness that higher level energy security is essential. Therefore, the social request for hydrogen-energy related materials is expected to be intensified in the near future. As a consequence, systematic researches into the storage / transportation and separation/purification of hydrogen are crucial. In April 2011, a total of 16 research articles concerning hydrogen-energy related materials were published in the first special issue of “Advanced Materials for Hydrogen Energy Applications” edited with Materials Transactions. In the second issue, we will assemble the latest studies regarding both fundamentals and applications with the aim to advance researches into novel functions and characterization techniques on hydrides.
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Hydride, Hydrogen energy, Hydrogen storage, Hydrogen purification, Quantum beam, Crystal structure, Electronic structure, Fuel cell, Secondary battery, Energy carrier

The editorial committee of Materials Transactions is planning to publish a special issue on “Advanced Materials Science in Bulk Nanostructured Metals II” as September 2013. The committee would like to invite many contributions of original articles from around the globe for this special issue.

Objective and topics of coverage are as follows:
Severe plastic deformation or electrodeposition processes have enabled to produce bulk-scale metallic metals having the average grain size smaller than 1 μm, which is so-called “bulk nanostructured metals”. It has been reported that bulk nanostructured metals exhibit both high strength and toughness, which have been thought mutual exclusive. Such outstanding properties of bulk nanostructured metals are not understood by the knowledge stored in materials with a conventional grain size. Bulk nanostructured metals contain a large number of grain boundaries and lattice defects such as dislocations. So, it is essential to build a new category of study taking into account the interaction between grain boundaries and lattice defects in nanoscopic point of view.
In the special issue of Materials Transaction (No.1 Vol.53 2011), 24 papers are included with respect to bulk nanostructured metals, which demonstrated the energetic activities in this academic field. The study in this field advances rapidly, elucidating a new properties and the mechanism behind them. New knowledge is being stored integrating experimental science and multi-scale computer science such as first-principle calculation, molecular dynamics and finite element methods. Therefore, guest editors decide to edit a special issue again in this research area, aiming to collect cutting edge studies on bulk nanostructured metals all over the world, including experimental, theoretical and computational simulation studies. The following topics will be focused in particular:
(1) Materials Design in Bulk Nanostructured Metals
(2) Fabrication of Bulk Nanostructured Metals
(3) Structures in Bulk Nanostructured Metals
(4) Mechanical and Functional Properties in Bulk Nanostructured Metals
In addition to them, the guest editors would hope to collect studies on high-temperature mechanical properties, corrosion and electrical properties, novel analytical methods on bulk nanostructured metals, which were not included in the previous special issue. It is our great pleasure when this special issue will play a significant role on advancing materials science for bulk nanostructured metals.

The editorial committee of Materials Transactions is planning to publish a special issue on “Strength of Fine Grained Materials —60 Years of Hall-Petch—” as January 2014. The committee would like to invite many contributions of original articles from around the globe for this special issue.
Objective and topics of coverage are as follows:
Since E. O. Hall (1951) and N. J. Petch (1953) proposed the equation σy = σ0 + kd-1/2 for the grain-size dependence of the yield strength of steels, the equation is known as the Hall-Petch law or Hall-Petch relation. The same equation has been shown to hold for the flow stress and fracture strength of metallic materials. Thus, grain refining has been used as a powerful tool of the strengthening and toughening of crystalline materials without changing the composition. Since 1990s, however, it has been found that when the grain size decreases below, say, 20 nm, the Hall-Petch law becomes no more valid and the strength even decreases with decreasing the grain size, now termed as the inverse Hall-Petch behavior. After 60 years have passed since the Hall-Petch law was established, we review in this special issue the present state of the art of the Hall-Petch and the inverse Hall-Petch relations from the experimental and theoretical viewpoints to understand the role of grain boundaries in the mechanical properties of polycrystalline materials and to carry out the optimum design of structural materials.
Topics:
Hall-Petch relation, Inverse Hall-Petch relation, Superplasticity, Fine-grained steels, Fine-grained non-ferrous metals, Fine-grained ceramics, Effect of grain-boundary segregation

The editorial committee of Materials Transactions is planning to publish a special issue on “Crystallographic Orientation Distribution and Related Properties in Advanced Materials IV” as January 2015.
The committee would like to invite many contributions of original articles from around the globe for this special issue.

Objective and topics of coverage are as follows:
Crystallographic orientation is an important factor affecting properties for crystalline materials such as metals and ceramics. Therefore, considerable attention is directed to texture control as a means to improve the properties in a wide range of materials including composites and thin films. Like the previous issues (Vol. 48 No. 8, Vol. 51 No. 4 and Vol. 53 No. 11), this special issue collects recent research reports on crystallographic orientation distribution in different scales analyzed by neutron diffraction, X-ray diffraction, electron back scatter diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, etc., not only with academic interest in the mechanism of texture evolution but also for technical applications of texture-related properties to several industrial fields. Texture research papers based on computing as well as on experiments are suitable for the aim of this issue.

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“Advanced Structural Materials for Extremely High Temperature Applications in Future”

The editorial committee of Materials Transactions is planning to publish a special issue on “Advanced Structural Materials for Extremely
High Temperature Applications in Future” as June 2017. The committee would like to invite many contributions of original articles from
around the globe for this special issue.

Objective and topics of coverage are as follows:
Various ideas for developing materials for extremely high temperature application have been proposed to realize high efficiency of fossil
fuels and energy consumption. In this special issue, the recent studies and the progress on the Advanced Structure Materials for high
temperature use which include not only metallic materials but also ceramic-based materials are summarized by Overview paper, Review papers
and Original papers.

The editorial committee of Materials Transactions is planning to publish a special issue on “Recent Advances in Solid State Ionics and Its Applications” as December 2017.
The committee would like to invite many contributions of original articles from around the globe for this special issue.

Objective and topics of coverage are as follows:
Recent advances in solid state ionics including ion-transport phenomena, materials development, and its applications are quite remarkable. As for the ion-transport phenomena, the visualization of bulk diffusion is being developed in conjunction with computational approaches, and new spectroscopic and diffraction techniques. Conduction mechanism and electrochemical reactions around surface and nano-scale interfaces are also being well interpreted. As for the materials development, in addition to high ionic conductors and mixed conductors, recently, a new class of materials such as polyanionic and organic-inorganic hybrid materials is of great interest. Their high quality thin films can be also fabricated by using the state-of-the-art deposition techniques. Furthermore, secondary batteries and fuel cells now show better and reliable performances. Operando analyses on such the devices have been also attracting attentions. Atomic switches and memristors are novel applications
utilizing solid state ionics. This special issue covers all of these topics to overlook the current status and future trends in this research field; overview and original papers on the following topics are highly welcomed.

“Kinetics and Phase Relationships for Microstructure Evolution in Metals and Alloys”

The editorial committee of Materials Transactions is planning to publish a special issue on “Kinetics and Phase Relationships for Microstructure Evolution in Metals and Alloys” as December 2017.
The committee would like to invite many contributions of original articles from around the globe for this special issue.

Objective and topics of coverage are as follows:
Physical and mechanical properties of metals and alloys are determined not only by the chemical composition but also by the microstructure. In order to realize the excellent properties, it is essentially important to optimize the microstructure. Microstructure evolution of metals and alloys during heat-treatment is usually controlled by diffusion. In the early stages of the heat-treatment, however, the microstructure evolution is governed by interface reaction. Thus, reliable information on the rate-controlling process is necessary for the microstructure optimization. The present issue concerns the articles relevant to the kinetics and the phase relationships for the microstructure evolution in metals and alloys.

The editorial committee of Materials Transactions is planning to publish a special issue on “Nanostructured Functional Materials and Their Applications II” as April 2018.
The committee would like to invite many contributions of original articles from around the globe for this special issue.

Objective and topics of coverage are as follows:
This special issue is a continuation of the previous special issue “Nanostructured functional materials and their applications” successfully published as vol. 56, No. 9 in 2015, which contained 40 excellent papers. The latest works after the above previous one will be collected in the current issue.
Nanostructured metals and ceramic materials often possess different properties from those of the bulk materials, which lead to the discoveries of many specific functions of the nanostructured materials. Such newly appeared properties have been widely applied to many industrial purposes. In order to summarize the recent progresses on nanostructured materials and expect the future expansion of this field, we collect the papers mainly with the following topics:
- Nanostructured magnetic, ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials
- Nanostructured semiconductors, hybrid and photonic materials
- Processing and characterization of nanostructured materials
- Applications of nanostructured materials
In addition to the open submissions in this special issue, we planned to publish selected papers of the satellite meeting of 4th International symposium on Frontiers in Materials Science (September 4-6, 2017 in Greifswald, Germany) prior to be held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in November 12-14, 2017.

The editorial committee of Materials Transactions is planning to publish a special issue on “Growth of Ecomaterials as a Key to Eco-Society V” as June 2018.
The committee would like to invite many contributions of original articles from around the globe for this special issue.

Objective and topics of coverage are as follows:
The editorial committee of Materials Transactions is planning to publish a special issue on “Growth of Ecomaterials as a Key to Eco-Society V” as June 2018. The committee would like to invite contributions of original articles from various countries for this special issue. Objective and topics of coverage are as follows:
Now ecomaterials are clarified by emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches that integrate advanced materials science and engineering methods with environmental awareness to yield energy and materials efficient technologies. Particular we are facing the changes on social system to secure energy and resources in the industrial world as well as climate change issues.
In this special issue as well as the volumes on July 2003, December 2005 December 2007 and May 2010, invited and contributed papers together with some overviews will be compiled to describe the hot discussion on the now and future movements of Ecomaterials for sustainable society in global.

“Development of Materials Integration in Structural Materials for Innovation”

The editorial committee of Materials Transactions is planning to publish a special issue on “Development of Materials Integration in Structural Materials for Innovation” as May 2018.
The committee would like to invite many contributions of original articles from around the globe for this special issue.

Objective and topics of coverage are as follows:
Materials Integration is a system of integrated tools and databases which has been developed for accelerating the R&D of structural materials in the national project named "Structural Materials for Innovation”, one of the R&D subjects of SIP (Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program) supported by the Cabinet Office. In the R&D of new materials, it is very important to correlate among the process, structure, the property, and the performance. The correlation should be achieved by using all the tools and knowledges such as theoretical- or empirical- formulations, computation approaches, database with data science, and so on.
Enhancing the importance of the prediction of the performance in the structural materials, this special issue will demonstrate the achievements of the project of Materials Integration as well as the general contributions in the new field.